Random House New Releases - Philosophy - Political - Between March 3, 2014 and April 2, 2015.http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/results.pperl?max_returns=20&pub_date=back365%5fahead30&cat_id_ex=Philosophy%20%2d%20Political%3a5043&best=
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/rss.pperl?max_returns=20&pub_date=back365%5fahead30&cat_id_ex=Philosophy%20%2d%20Political%3a5043&best=en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssDeja Vu and the End of History by David Broderhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686119
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686119<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686119"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781686119" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686119">Deja Vu and the End of History</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220912">Paolo Virno</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=303908">David Broder</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 200 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$95.00</b> | February 24, 2015 | 978-1-78168-611-9 (1-78168-611-4)<p>D&eacute;j&agrave; vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the &ldquo;end of history.&rdquo; Through thinkers such as Bergson, Koj&egrave;ve and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between &ldquo;before&rdquo; and &ldquo;after,&rdquo; cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-24T00:30:00-05:00The Future by John Howehttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685679
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685679<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685679"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685679" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685679">The Future</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183148">Marc Auge</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182764">John Howe</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 112 pages | Verso | Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Social Science - Future Studie; Philosophy - Political | <b>$70.00</b> | February 24, 2015 | 978-1-78168-567-9 (1-78168-567-3)<p>For Marc Aug&eacute;, best-selling author of <i>Non-Places</i>, the prevailing idea of &ldquo;the Future&rdquo; rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Aug&eacute; finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-24T00:30:00-05:00Heroes by Franco "Bifo" Berardihttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685778
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685778<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685778"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685778" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685778">Heroes</a> Mass Murder and Suicide<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307941">Franco "Bifo" Berardi</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 224 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Art - Art & Politics | <b>$95.00</b> | February 24, 2015 | 978-1-78168-577-8 (1-78168-577-0)<p>What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco &ldquo;Bifo&rdquo; Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.<br><br> Spanning an array of horrors &ndash; the Aurora &ldquo;Joker&rdquo; killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate of &ldquo;austerity&rdquo; suicides in Europe &ndash; <i>Heroes</i> dares to explore the darkest shadow cast by the contemporary obsession with relentless competition and hyper-connectivity. In a volume that crowns four decades of radical intellectual work, Berardi develops the psychoanalytical insights of his friend F&eacute;lix Guattari and proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of absolute capitalism.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-24T00:30:00-05:00State of Insecurity by Judith Butlerhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685952
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685952<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685952"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685952" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685952">State of Insecurity</a> Government of the Precarious<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=224367">Isabell Lorey</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307956">Aileen Derieg</a><br> <b>Foreword by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182978">Judith Butler</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 148 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$70.00</b> | February 24, 2015 | 978-1-78168-595-2 (1-78168-595-9)<p>Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.<br><br>In <i>State of Insecurity</i>, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-24T00:30:00-05:00Deja Vu and the End of History by David Broderhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686126
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686126<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686126"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781686126" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686126">Deja Vu and the End of History</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220912">Paolo Virno</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=303908">David Broder</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 200 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-612-6 (1-78168-612-2)<p>D&eacute;j&agrave; vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the &ldquo;end of history.&rdquo; Through thinkers such as Bergson, Koj&egrave;ve and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between &ldquo;before&rdquo; and &ldquo;after,&rdquo; cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.</p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00Deja Vu and the End of History by David Broderhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686133
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686133<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686133"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781686133" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686133">Deja Vu and the End of History</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220912">Paolo Virno</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=303908">David Broder</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 200 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-613-3 (1-78168-613-0)<p>D&eacute;j&agrave; vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the &ldquo;end of history.&rdquo; Through thinkers such as Bergson, Koj&egrave;ve and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between &ldquo;before&rdquo; and &ldquo;after,&rdquo; cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00The Future by John Howehttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685662
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685686<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685686"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685686" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685686">The Future</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183148">Marc Auge</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182764">John Howe</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 112 pages | Verso | Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Social Science - Future Studie; Philosophy - Political | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-568-6 (1-78168-568-1)<p>For Marc Aug&eacute;, best-selling author of <i>Non-Places</i>, the prevailing idea of &ldquo;the Future&rdquo; rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Aug&eacute; finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00Heroes by Franco "Bifo" Berardihttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685785
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685785<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685785"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685785" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685785">Heroes</a> Mass Murder and Suicide<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307941">Franco "Bifo" Berardi</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 224 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Art - Art & Politics | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-578-5 (1-78168-578-9)<p>What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco &ldquo;Bifo&rdquo; Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.<br><br> Spanning an array of horrors &ndash; the Aurora &ldquo;Joker&rdquo; killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate of &ldquo;austerity&rdquo; suicides in Europe &ndash; <i>Heroes</i> dares to explore the darkest shadow cast by the contemporary obsession with relentless competition and hyper-connectivity. In a volume that crowns four decades of radical intellectual work, Berardi develops the psychoanalytical insights of his friend F&eacute;lix Guattari and proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of absolute capitalism.</p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00Heroes by Franco "Bifo" Berardihttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685792
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685792<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685792"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685792" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685792">Heroes</a> Mass Murder and Suicide<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307941">Franco "Bifo" Berardi</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 224 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Art - Art & Politics | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-579-2 (1-78168-579-7)<p>What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco &ldquo;Bifo&rdquo; Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.<br><br> Spanning an array of horrors &ndash; the Aurora &ldquo;Joker&rdquo; killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate of &ldquo;austerity&rdquo; suicides in Europe &ndash; <i>Heroes</i> dares to explore the darkest shadow cast by the contemporary obsession with relentless competition and hyper-connectivity. In a volume that crowns four decades of radical intellectual work, Berardi develops the psychoanalytical insights of his friend F&eacute;lix Guattari and proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of absolute capitalism.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00State of Insecurity by Judith Butlerhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685969
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685969<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685969"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685969" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685969">State of Insecurity</a> Government of the Precarious<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=224367">Isabell Lorey</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307956">Aileen Derieg</a><br> <b>Foreword by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182978">Judith Butler</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 148 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-596-9 (1-78168-596-7)<p>Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.<br><br>In <i>State of Insecurity</i>, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.</p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00State of Insecurity by Judith Butlerhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685976
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685976<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685976"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685976" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685976">State of Insecurity</a> Government of the Precarious<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=224367">Isabell Lorey</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=307956">Aileen Derieg</a><br> <b>Foreword by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182978">Judith Butler</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 148 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Political; Social Science - Future Studie; Political Science - History & Theory | <b>$12.95</b> | February 3, 2015 | 978-1-78168-597-6 (1-78168-597-5)<p>Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control.<br><br>In <i>State of Insecurity</i>, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2015-02-03T00:30:00-05:00Thomas Jefferson by M. Andrew Holowchakhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616149529
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687659<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687659"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781687659" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687659">The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I</a> Volume I: Economic Writings I<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182670">Rosa Luxemburg</a><br> <b>Edited by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182671">Peter Hudis</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 620 pages | Verso | Political Science - Communism & Socialism; History - Europe; Philosophy - Political | <b>$39.95</b> | November 4, 2014 | 978-1-78168-765-9 (1-78168-765-X)<p>This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg&rsquo;s <i>Complete Works,</i> entitled&#160;<i>Economic Writings 1</i>, contains some of Luxemburg&rsquo;s most important&#160;statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism,&#160;and pre-capitalist economic formations.<br><br>In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation,&#160;&ldquo;The Industrial Development of Poland,&rdquo; Volume I includes the first&#160;complete English-language publication of her &ldquo;Introduction to&#160;Political Economy,&rdquo; which explores (among other issues) the impact&#160;of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on noncapitalist&#160;social strata in the developing world. Also appearing here&#160;are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has ever&#160;before been published in English.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><br clear="all">2014-11-04T00:30:00-05:00Left Hemisphere by Gregory Elliotthttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685594
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685594<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685594"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685594" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685594">Left Hemisphere</a> Mapping Contemporary Theory<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=178576">Razmig Keucheyan</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=178577">Gregory Elliott</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 304 pages | Verso | Philosophy - Movements - Critical Theory; Philosophy - Political | <b>$19.95</b> | November 4, 2014 | 978-1-78168-559-4 (1-78168-559-2)<p>As the crisis of capitalism unfolds,&#160;the need for alternatives is felt ever more&#160;intensely. The struggle between radical&#160;movements and the forces of reaction will&#160;be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where&#160;the outcome of the crisis will in part be&#160;decided, is that of theory.&#160;Over the last twenty-five years, radical&#160;intellectuals across the world have&#160;produced important and innovative ideas.<br><br>The endeavour to transform the world&#160;without falling into the catastrophic traps&#160;of the past has been a common element&#160;uniting these new approaches.&#160;This book &ndash; aimed at both the general&#160;reader and the specialist &ndash; offers the&#160;first global cartography of the expanding&#160;intellectual field of critical contemporary&#160;thought. More than thirty authors and&#160;intellectual currents of every continent&#160;are presented in a clear and succinct&#160;manner. A history of critical thought&#160;in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries&#160;is also provided, helping situate current&#160;thinkers in a broader historical and&#160;sociological perspective.</p><br clear="all">2014-11-04T00:30:00-05:00On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simon Leyshttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177907
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177907<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177907"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781590177907" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590177907">On the Abolition of All Political Parties</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=112122">Simone Weil</a><br> <b>Contribution by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=112058">Czeslaw Milosz</a><br> <b>Translated by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=162233">Simon Leys</a><br> <b>Introduction by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=162233">Simon Leys</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 96 pages | NYRB Classics | Philosophy - Political; Political Science - Political Ideologies; Political Science - Political Parties | <b>$14.00</b> | September 30, 2014 | 978-1-59017-790-7 (1-59017-790-8)<p>An NYRB Classics Original&#160;<br><br> Simone Weil&mdash;philosopher, activist, mystic&mdash;is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In &ldquo;On the Abolition of All Political Parties&rdquo; she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends.&#160;<br><br> This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil&rsquo;s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys.</p><br clear="all">2014-09-30T00:30:00-05:00The Communist Postscript by Thomas Fordhttp://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781784780302
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687734<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687734"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781687734" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781687734">Comradely Greetings</a> The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=178618">Slavoj Zizek</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2073939">Nadezhda Tolokonnikova</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 112 pages | Verso | Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Philosophy - Political; History - Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union) | <b>$9.95</b> | September 30, 2014 | 978-1-78168-773-4 (1-78168-773-0)<p><i>&rdquo;We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.&rdquo;</i><br><br>In an extraordinary exchange of letters, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, imprisoned for taking part in Pussy Riot&rsquo;s anti-Putin performance, and&#160;Slovenian philosopher Slavoj &#142;i&#158;ek discuss artistic subversion, political activism, and the future of democracy via the ideas of Hegel, Deleuze, Nietzsche, and even Laurie Anderson.&#160;<br><br>Two radicals, one in a Russian forced labor camp, the other writing to her from far outside its walls, show passionately &ndash;&#160;across linguistic and generational divides &ndash;&#160;that &ldquo;there is still a common cause worth fighting for.&rdquo;&#160;Touching, erudite, and worldly, their correspondence unfolds with poetic urgency.<br><br>In association with&#160;<i>Philosophie Magazine</i>.</p><br clear="all">2014-09-30T00:30:00-05:00